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C1905
Port Jackson & Middle Harbour also Parramatta & Lane Cove Rivers
Very rare Sydney Harbour map by Herbert Edward Cooper Robinson surrounded by flags of various shipping companies. 1. Port Jackson & Middle Harbour also Parramatta & Lane Cove Rivers: Panoramic View of Sydney and Port from North Shore Looking Southward. 430mm … Read Full Description
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S/N: ROBI-117-MOPJ-1905ED03–233847
(RW02-B)
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Full Title:
Port Jackson & Middle Harbour also Parramatta & Lane Cove Rivers
Date:
C1905
Condition:
Minor repairs along folds, otherwise in good condition. Laid onto archival linen.
Technique:
Hand coloured lithograph.
Image Size:
675mm
x 485mm
Paper Size:
760mm
x 565mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1905
Description:
Very rare Sydney Harbour map by Herbert Edward Cooper Robinson surrounded by flags of various shipping companies.
1. Port Jackson & Middle Harbour also Parramatta & Lane Cove Rivers: Panoramic View of Sydney and Port from North Shore Looking Southward. 430mm x 530mm  (on 15 sheets)
Herbert Edward Cooper Robinson (1857 - 1933)
Robinson was a founder of the (Royal) Geographical Society of Australasia in 1885, a member of the Geographical Society of New South Wales in the late 1920s and a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of London. He made many valuable contributions to geographical science and was a delegate to the 1923 Sydney Regional Plan Convention. A friend and technical collaborator of Professor Sir Edgeworth David, he helped to produce David's monumental large-scale Geological Map of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1932. His draughtsmen also produced the maps for Donald Mackay's important aerial surveys of Australia from 1930. 1895 Wentworth Court-Robinson set up his own map-publishing business 1906 Phillip Street 1913 Permanent location at 221-223 George Street. 1917 H. E. C. Robinson Ltd was officially incorporated
